The royals have been known to have a number of nicknames for one another – and Prince William and Princess Kate’s only daughter, Princess Charlotte, is no exception
Everyone knows the British royal family by their titles, but behind closed doors things are altogether a lot less formal. Like so many of us, they have a number of nicknames for each other – and that includes Princess Charlotte.
The nine-year-old royal was born Charlotte Elizabeth Diana on 2 May 2015. But it didn’t take long for her mum and dad to come up with a sweet abbreviation for their only daughter.
During a visit to Windsor Park stadium in Northern Ireland in 2019, influencer Laura-Ann Barr, who posts under @all.thats.pretty, revealed that the Princess of Wales referred to her daughter as ‘Lottie’ rather than Charlotte during their conversation.
It’s thought that Charlotte’s school friends also call her Lottie Wales, as a nod to the titles given to her parents by King Charles when her great-grandmother the Queen passed away.
It’s not Charlotte’s only family nickname. Her parents also refer to her as the “Warrior Princess” due to her ‘feisty’ personality, according to Vanity Fair’s royal correspondent Katie Nichol.
In addition, it’s said that William also uses the name ‘mignonette’ when referring to his daughter, a French term of endearment.
The parents have family names for their other children, too. And George has a particularly unusual moniker – inspired by a British brand of tea bags. Once his friends started abbreviating Prince George to ‘PG’, William and Kate apparently took the next logical step and dubbed him Tips.
And just last year, Princess Kate revealed her adorable name for youngest child, Prince Louis.
While the family was volunteering with a Scout group as part of the “Big Help Out”—a nationwide volunteering initiative in honour of the coronation of King Charles—they took some time to roast marshmallows over a fire pit. As she handed Louis a stick, Kate was overheard saying: “Pop that in the fire, Lou Bug.”
Prince William also has his own nicknames, including one given to him by his late mother Diana – ‘Wombat’.
In a 2007 interview with NBC’s Matt Lauer, he explained: “It began when I was two. I’ve been rightfully told because I can’t remember back that far. But when we went to Australia with our parents, and the wombat, you know, that’s the local animal. So I just basically got called that. Not because I look like a wombat, or maybe I do?!”
And William was actually responsible for one of the late Queen’s more unusual nicknames, ‘Gary’. According to Daily Mail , while William was playing at Buckingham Palace as a child, he took a little trip and called out for help. But instead of shouting for ‘Granny’, he called for ‘Gary’- much to the confusion of everyone present.
The column reported : “A guest who went to help asked who Gary was, assuming it must be a member of the royal household. ‘I’m Gary,’ responded the Queen. “‘He hasn’t learned to say Granny yet’.”
Princess Kate , meanwhile, was nicknamed “Squeak” as a young girl at St Andrew’s School in Berkshire. She explained how the name came about while on a visit to the school years later.
“I was nicknamed Squeak just like my guinea pig,” she said. “There was one called Pip and one called Squeak because my sister was called Pippa and I was Squeak.”
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